The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
UPDATE 4 March 2009 20:41: This was NASA's Astronomy Picture Of the Day on January 22, 2009. There's a much higher resolution picture at APOD. Thanks to commenter Seriously for the pointer.
3 comments:
Where did you get that? I didn't see it on APOD.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/
Seriously, I think I did a search on Flickr for "Hubble". May not be the exact string, but it was a simple search. Don't think it was "astronomy".
Flickr is pretty cool.
APOD is pretty cool, too - especially the descriptions. And, if you use the right incantation (search for "NGC 2818"), you find this:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090122.html
Much, much better pic than the one on Flickr. So yes, it was AOPD (Jan 22, 2009), and someone shrunk it down and stuck it up on Flickr,
Thanks for the pointer to AOPD!
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